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1) Coraline
Author
Language
English
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When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
2) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
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Language
English
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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
5) Saint Iggy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Princess Ka�iulani is the bright and beautiful heir to the Hawaiian throne in this epic true story. Following an idyllic childhood in Honolulu, the willful teenage princess is sent to Britain to receive an education fit for a future queen. There she meets the handsome young Clive Davies, who quickly sweeps her off her feet. Ka�iulani must choose between love and her duty to her people in this sweeping tale of royalty, romance, and destiny.
9) Nancy Drew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old, but she is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father, Carson Drew. Having promised him that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death, and living in Dehlia's...
11) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first...
13) Better off dead
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts only bring him more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with, and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
15) Littlerock
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Los Angeles exurb and its shiftless young residents are seen through the eyes of two Japanese tourists in an intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyone's talking but no one really understands.
16) Love struck sick
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A coming of age moment for two young adults seeking happiness and love in a Midwest town. Angie is an orphan and a shy waitress who dreams of performing music. Clint is a struggling salesman who lost his parents when he was a toddler.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
Publisher
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In the village of Monte Athena in Italy at the turn of the 19th century, necklines are high, parents are rigid, and marriage is seldom a matter of love. Thus, Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander, while her father wants only Demetrius for his son-in-law. Poor Helena burns hot for Demetrius, who avoids her like the plague. Meanwhile, fairy king Oberon is engaged in a battle of wits with his queen, Titania, and...
19) Touki bouki
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Wolof
Description
Anta and Mory are young lovers fed up with Dakar and plan to escape to France, which they imagine to be paradisiacal, but reality and surreality place obstacles in their path at every turn.
20) Home
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A lovable misfit from another planet meets a teenage girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time--the journey HOME.
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